Join us for a multimedia, robotic, and generally chaotic doubleheader concert with artists Bryan Jacobs and On Structure.

The Portal is a fully staged multimedia performance created, designed and performed by the performance duo On Structure (Natacha Diels and Jessie Marino). This 30 minute work of choreographed performance rituals uses live electronic sound, video projection, and DIY animatronics to stage a joyfully chaotic world which use folkloric songs, televised dramas, and amusement park scenography to tell the hidden mythologies of the Uncanny Valley. The Portal is a performance platform; part Video Game, part Ritual Alter, part Twilight Zone. On stage, the two heroines are jostled between the analog and digital worlds - preparing, practicing and perfecting their choreographed rituals as they move through different visual mediums, electronic sound worlds, and dreamscapes. Their playful actions respond to, mimic, or comment on their visual surroundings creating playfully menacing dramatic spaces where the line between reality and virtual reality is flickering in and out of focus.

Bryan Jacobs will present a menagerie of robotic and mechanical instruments - for more information on his various creatures see: http://bryanjacobsmusic.com. More...

RTD3 - Ron Heglin (trombone, voice), Tom Nunn (original instruments) and Doug Carroll (cello) - have played together for decades. Ron speaks, sings and chants songs and stories from unrecognizable languages. Tom brings his own unique sounds of an alien kind of music with his original instruments. Doug celloistically sings the melodies of a mind and soul divested of any sense of normalcy! More...

A concert with trumpeter Ari Micich and friends. Ari Micich has performed with the San Francisco Symphony, New World Symphony and many Bay Area orchestras and ensembles. He has toured internationally and has held positions with the KwaZulu Natal Philharmonic in Durban, South Africa and the Berkeley Symphony in Berkeley California. More...

Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm. More...

KFJC's annual 28 hour birthday tribute to Sun Ran and his Arkestra. Astral exploration through the space and times of all things Sun Ra, music, poetry, art and philosophy. From the Afro-centric to the outer-galactic. Sunday, May 21, 10 pm until Tuesday, May 23, 2am. More...

Visual artist LATIFA MEDJDOUB and sound artist HACO collaborate on Eurythmy#2, a social performance-concert at the Museum of Performance + Design inspired by nature’s energy and rhythmical order that is inviting an active public to reflect on the multiple levels of interconnectedness between individuals and networks. At the performance, the public will use sculptural modular elements and collaborate on the construction of a vast ephemeral flexible architecture in relation to live environmental sound designed by Japanese artist HACO. Through this unparalleled artistic experience, participants will gradually be transported within the material space of an expansive soft fiber-sculpture and the immaterial space of open ended environmental sound. More...

Please join us as CCRMA presents 2 evenings of immersive spatial multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space on Friday/Saturday May 26th/27th at 7.30PM. We will deploy the CCRMA GRAIL - The Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening - our full 3D surround speaker array for these events... Not to be missed by you or your ears!

Music by:

Natasha BarrettAke ParmerudFernando Lopez-LezcanoHans TutsckuConstantin Basica Bill SchottstaedtAlex ChechileChristopher JetteAnd works by the students of Music 222 (Sound in Space) and Music 220C/D More...

Please join us as CCRMA presents 2 evenings of immersive spatial multichannel music at the Bing Concert Hall Studio Space on Friday/Saturday May 26th/27th at 7.30PM. We will deploy the CCRMA GRAIL - The Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening - our full 3D surround speaker array for these events... Not to be missed by you or your ears!

Music by:

Natasha BarrettAke ParmerudFernando Lopez-LezcanoHans TutsckuConstantin Basica Bill SchottstaedtAlex ChechileChristopher JetteAnd works by the students of Music 222 (Sound in Space) and Music 220C/D More...

Moe! Staiano is an Oakland-based composer/drummer whose large ensembles, Moe! Staiano Ensemble and Moe!kestra!, have performed in both Europe and the United States. His dense, heavy and intense compositions often include unconventional instrumentation, such as sirens, u-bolts, prepared guitars and wine glasses, as well as traditional orchestral and rock instruments. His composition, "Away Towards the Light," is an exploration of tonal interplay and contrasting rhythms for nine electric guitars, bass and drums composed in three movements, and is his first composition for multiple electric guitars.

San Francisco International Arts Festival presents Edward Schocker and the Crossing Ensemble and Shih Yang Lee

The Crossing is a long-term project lead by Edward Schocker that creates a new form of ecstatic group improvisation through investigating ancient Asian musical genres, such as Japanese Gagaku and Korean shamanist ritual music, with the goal reaching a state of communication with spirit world.

Composer, pianist and improviser Shih Yang Lee, who last appeared at the Festival in 2015 with performances with Horse Dance Theatre and Melody of China, returns to share an experimental concert with some of the Bay Area’s finest improvisers and experimental musicians. More...

Jenny Maybee’s “eloquent and heart stopping” piano playing and vocals have been hailed as “expertly balanced,” with her voice described as “exquisite” and “in the same league” as Billie Holiday, and her piano stylings compared to Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, and Cecil Taylor. Jenny’s trio, featuring John Wiitala (bass) and Hamir Atwal (drums), will bring an evening of innovative music to The Sound Room. Rooted in the jazz and classical traditions, yet always breaking new ground, the trio will present original compositions and arrangements of favorite jazz standards. More...

VOYAGE is a ritual music drama, composed by Richard Marriott and Made Subandi, with Pamela Z, Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, utilizing video and interactive electronics. VOYAGE follows the structure of a Balinese ritual called Calonarang, and is about crossing over the boundaries between nations, the crossroads between cultures, and the territory between life and death. More...

VOYAGE is a ritual music drama, composed by Richard Marriott and Made Subandi, with Pamela Z, Carla Fabrizio and Sarah Willner, utilizing video and interactive electronics. VOYAGE follows the structure of a Balinese ritual called Calonarang, and is about crossing over the boundaries between nations, the crossroads between cultures, and the territory between life and death. More...

Prolific Chicago-based saxophonist Dave Rempis (Rempis Percussion Quartet, Ballister, Rempis/Abrams/Ra, The Engines, Rempis-Johnston Ochs Trio) will present a set of new and developing solo pieces as part of his sprawling solo journey around the United States and Canada, taking place from April 16 thru June 26, 2017. He will be joined by the rarely heard Scott Walton - Tim Perkis Duo, a duo of Walton on piano and Perkis on electronics. Their newly released CD will be featured at the show! More...

“The Monday a little more then a month before”2017 Outsound Fund Drive & Benefit DinnerJoin us at the Finnish Kaleva Hall downstairs in the Helsinki Cafe for our Benefit Dinner event!!Music by ZeBib! featuring Shanna Sordahl and Robert Lopez in addition to a delicious menu and dessert provided by Slippery Fish Catering for all preferences.Visit our fund drive at our Indiegogo Generosity Campaignhttps://igg.me/at/5yo13PZmapMMore...

Action and Music presents a continuum of works by Stanford student composers. Bring a sounding object along with you and be ready for an adventure! Music is ours. Everybody is welcome to participate. More...

New compositions in Just Intonation by Chris Brown: Six Primes for solo piano and First Light, based on Jackson Mac Low's "Light Poems", for trio with Chris (keyboard), Theresa Wong (cello and voice) and Kyle Bruckmann (oboe and electronics) More...

Celebrate the Bay Area’s own rich Latin Jazz heritage, cultivated by Cal Tjader, as Steve McQuarry presents Tribu on Saturday, June 17th. Join the anniversary celebration party on July 1st with special Peruvian treats. The band performs all shows and celebration 7-10pm at Chalaca Annexo, 428 Third Street (@ Broadway) in Oakland. More...

Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Audience & participants encouraged to donate some cash for space rental. Over by 10pm. More...

Exploring the complexities of language (i.e., rational, irrational, conscious, subconscious, structured, improvised), through speech, the voice, the physical and gestural, as well as the mysteries of codes, programming, animal, machine and other non-being languages, composer/performer Jane Rigler explores acoustic and electronic interactions of sounds as languages and languages as sounds. More...

Sound Underground is a compact trio with an expansive imagination. Saxophonist David Leon, trumpeter Alec Aldred and guitarist Jonah Udall draw on a broad array of influences from Cool Jazz to Americana, to Bulgarian folklore and the avant-garde to distill a unique and deeply personal voice. Hailed by AllAboutJazz.com as “a fresh sound... uncluttered and open... capable of grabbing a listener's attention and holding it indefinitely,” Sound Underground steers through inventive textures far beyond the limits of their unconventional chamber instrumentation. More...